cwmma

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by cwmma 13d ago
I don't actually think Xenon-124 being radioactive was a surprise. All the publicity related to observing the decay for the first time is phrased around 'hey we observed something that's very rare' not 'hey this th
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by cwmma 14d ago
Probably not, they have a pretty good handle on why atoms decay, to the point they can predict some to be radioactive before it's actually observed to be (like Bismuth-209). Also even if something is REALLY REALLY long lasting, you can
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by cwmma 1mo ago
Ironically, most of the metal stuff doesn't survive from antiquary. For instance most statues were in bronze not marble, but since metal can be easily recycled the only metal statues that survived are from ship wrecks.
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by cwmma 2mo ago
A lot of libertarian dogma is based on classic homo economicus 'lets pretend people act perfectly rationally' type theories that just really break down when confronted with how humans actually act.
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by cwmma 2mo ago
Iceland did it a year later, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dagurinn , but since there was less then 200k people living there it was a much less dramatic change
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by cwmma 2mo ago
Is there a term for a product which is really only really for a minority of it's users? Air travel seems like this as most airlines and manufacturers seem to bend over backwards for their wealthy and high margin passengers and basicall
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by cwmma 2mo ago
They might not have a choice is the problem, there has been a pretty successful campaign to get credit card companies to cut off payments to anyone even remotely connected to this kind of stuff.
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by cwmma 2mo ago
they just lost a case in Europe about being trademarked
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by cwmma 2mo ago
> That makes me curious if military tactics of the time also had regional variation and if the relative strengths of various regions came from their awareness of certain tools being effective. Bringing in a foreign army with its foreign
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by cwmma 2mo ago
First off business are taxed on profits not revenues, so a money losing business doesn't pay taxes. Second if there is something that causes undesirable side effects (like a data center) you want to tax that activity specifically so th
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by cwmma 2mo ago
If you can't tax the outputs you tax the input. So force then to pay more for electricity or water either through direct taxes or by forcing them to subsidize other users.
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by cwmma 3mo ago
If you write an article about Zabka stores and what's unique and interesting about them I'll probably read it.
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by cwmma 3mo ago
Surprisingly this comes up more then you'd think, for instance in Ancient Rome, tomorrow is two days away so all the dates are off by one from what you'd think it was. They mainly count down and it goes, 5, 4, 3, day before, day.
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by cwmma 3mo ago
Isn't a big problem with Linear A that there are so few symbols you can "solve" it relatively straightforwardly with no way to tell if you it's correct or not?
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by cwmma 3mo ago
What do you consider the appropriate false negative/fall positive rate for voices of people aged 16-20? Since you don't give a confidence rating to the determination it's on the service to figure out what it's comfortab
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by cwmma 3mo ago
As somebody who makes maps for a living, I think clusters are overrated (I have had, on multiple occasions, had to talk people out of it). The leaflet extension that gives you a preview of the area covered by the cluster and allows you to c
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by cwmma 3mo ago
post puberty boys have absolutely have overlap with over 18 adults, if for no other reason then kids can go through puberty at different ages, so some 18 years olds have voices that are just dropping while others have had their voice drop f
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by cwmma 3mo ago
I (41 man with very deep voice) told it in a higher then normal voice that I was a kid, and it said I was under 18. I suspect if I was a kid that used a deep voice to say that I was an adult it would also fool it. No offense but this is pr
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by cwmma 3mo ago
It depends on the year, sometimes it's actually visa overstays.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
Probably not, we're nowhere near the complexity of the human brain yet, there are also quantization limits to the human brain (i.e. molecules, quantum physics, etc) so to characterize them as having infinite detail is probably a bad mo
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by cwmma 4mo ago
besides zoning laws, the judge fairly explicitly states that one of the reasons he thinks it's fine is because corporations aren't doing these kinds of shenanigans, so if you were to do something like that he might revise the ruli
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by cwmma 4mo ago
I find myself defending this shitty ruling (which I honestly think is bad, but bad for completely other reasons) the ruling basically says, since corporations are not using this to dilute the vote it's fine, which basically means in ot
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by cwmma 4mo ago
yeah so it sounds like if you did this IN THIS TOWN and didn't also live in the town you'd get a vote. I'm not sure if you'd get a vote if you owned the land directly but for all I know you might.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
I don't think this is a good opinion or anything, but issues with vote dilution were expressly addressed in the opinion.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
It's specifically about corporations that own property in a specific town voting. So no you can't just spin up a bunch of LLCs to rig an election, this is about the rights of absentee landlords.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
It sounds like you it's only corporations that own property in the town that get to vote. So that's probably whats preventing you.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
There is a specific medial jargon developed form latin designed to be unambiguous and often intentionally different from lay words is one thing you're hearing in American tv, the other is that many technical words are English words but
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by cwmma 4mo ago
no they have a securities license. Also while a lot of stuff in stock markets are gambling like, the stock market is a positive sum game where very basic techniques (e.g. index investing) have positive expected values. The buyers and selle
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by cwmma 4mo ago
In the American system juries figure out questions of fact and judges figure out questions of law. In this case I guess the question was 'when did the incident actually happen' with Elon arguing it was later then Altman.
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by cwmma 4mo ago
Shapefiles, the legacy multifile file format for geospatial stuff that is still an incredibly important interchange format since it has basically universal support is built around DBF files. So despite it being an incredibly old file format

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